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Dirty Chris Steele Defends His Junk Dossier – Says He Won’t Speak with US Investigators Barr or Durham
GATEWAY PUNDIT ^ | 3/6/2020 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 03/06/2020 5:55:00 PM PST by bitt

Former British spy and author of the junk Trump-Russia dossier, Christopher Steele, defended his unconfirmed trash report on candidate Donald Trump. The former British spy inflicted upon America the Russia scam that derailed the Trump administration for three years.

Steele, who spoke at Oxford University today, says he will not cooperate with William Barr and John Durham. There is currently a criminal referral on Steele for lying to congressional investigaters.

The Daily Caller reported:

“I stand by the integrity of our work, our sources and what we did,” Steele said at the Oxford Student Union.

Steele’s glowing self-assessment is in stark contrast to the findings of the special counsel’s investigation and a Justice Department inspector general’s report on the FBI’s surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

The FBI relied heavily on Steele’s information to obtain four warrants to wiretap Page. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) blasted the FBI in the wake of the inspector general’s report, accusing the bureau of submitting false and misleading information related to Page, Steele, and the dossier.

The report found that the FBI was unable to corroborate Steele’s allegations regarding Page or other Trump associates. It also said that Steele’s only direct source for information disputed much of what was in the dossier.

The Steele source’s interviews with the FBI in early 2017 “raised doubts about the reliability of Steele’s descriptions of information in his election reports,” according to the report.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


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1 posted on 03/06/2020 5:55:00 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 03/06/2020 5:55:13 PM PST by bitt ("Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin)
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To: bitt

Send him to Gitmo!

It ain’t waterboardin’ if ya use Diesel!


3 posted on 03/06/2020 5:57:13 PM PST by Freedom4US
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To: bitt

Waterboard that prick!


4 posted on 03/06/2020 5:57:37 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: bitt

This person needs a DOJ arrest warrant, or he can make his way with his council and answer questions. I don’t care what he chooses, but his actions, as a foreign agent, constitute an act of war by interfering in a US election. Since he is ‘former British intelligence’ it as serious as it gets, IMHO. The information, his contacts with Fusion GPS, information given to him by NSA top secret spy programs via Fusion GPS and the DNC, must be an open book.


5 posted on 03/06/2020 6:05:19 PM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: bitt
Round and round we go, all in an effort to fall on the ball and run out the clock.
6 posted on 03/06/2020 6:06:47 PM PST by Major Matt Mason
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To: bitt

RENDITION. NOW.


7 posted on 03/06/2020 6:08:29 PM PST by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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To: Major Matt Mason
Well, at least Steele knows Barr and Durham are investigating FISA.

#TrustThePlan

#SteeleKnowsAndIsAfraid


8 posted on 03/06/2020 6:11:21 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bitt

Can we put an international fatwa on that POS? BEST PRACTICES of justice systems BUMP!


9 posted on 03/06/2020 6:14:23 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: bitt

My God, durham hasn’t spoke with steel yet? This investigation is a joke.


10 posted on 03/06/2020 6:18:58 PM PST by JoSixChip (I'm an American Nationalist)
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To: bitt
What investigation?
Oh it's still going on? In the Meantime … Dims are going radical and Trump is still Winning!
11 posted on 03/06/2020 6:30:25 PM PST by djstex (Our Motto is Winning with President Trump! Keep America GREAT 2020!)
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To: JoSixChip

It’s either the most airtight investigation ever or he’s a another Great Pumpkin like Huber and the IG.


12 posted on 03/06/2020 6:31:17 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: bitt

He is so confident in his work he won’t defend it under oath. lol

Lowlife!


13 posted on 03/06/2020 6:31:18 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: TigersEye

Daily Beast was at the Oxford Union!
note how their final paragraph gives the impression Steele was with FusionGPS when Republicans hired them to do opposition research. read it all for more quotes:

6 Mar: Daily Beast: Christopher Steele Whacks Mueller Report and ‘Bad Faith’ Team Trump
Out of the Shadows: The former head of MI6’s Russia desk was speaking publicly for the first time since his dossier on Trump’s relationship with Russia was published in 2017.
by Nick Mutch
OXFORD, England: ...Speaking to students at Oxford University in England, he described the probe into Russian interference as having failed to do any “drilling down into financial networks and leverage,” which he said was “the way Russian influence works.”

His appearance at the Oxford Union, a 200-year-old debating society, was held in private but attended by The Daily Beast...

(final paragraph) Many Republicans, led by President Trump, have alleged political bias in Steele’s work because his research company was hired by American firm Fusion GPS, which had been conducting opposition research on Trump on behalf of his Republican primary challengers. The Clinton campaign later picked up the tab. Steele dismissed the allegations of bias, describing himself as simply “an opponent of President Putin.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/christopher-steele-whacks-mueller-report-and-bad-faith-team-trump?source=articles&via=rss


14 posted on 03/06/2020 6:43:56 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: bitt

SOB needs to be taken out like last weeks garbage.


15 posted on 03/06/2020 6:44:41 PM PST by Bullish (Covfefe Happens)
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To: Bullish

check the “sources” rubbish Hosenball has written:

6 Mar: Reuters: Trump ‘dossier’ author Christopher Steele rejects prosecutor’s interview request
By Mark Hosenball
The former British intelligence officer who produced a ‘dossier’ linking Donald Trump and his presidential campaign to Russia has declined to give an interview to a prosecutor assigned by U.S. Attorney General William Barr to investigate aspects of the 2016 U.S. campaign, three sources familiar with the matter said...

Steele’s representatives told Durham’s team that the former officer for Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, was not interested in cooperating with Durham’s investigation and would not speak to his team, the sources said. Steele was concerned that Durham’s investigation was overly politicized and he would not be treated fairly, the sources said...

Some of those targeted by Durham, including senior former aides to President Barack Obama who raised questions about Trump’s connections to Russia before the 2016 election, have expressed concern the probe could be used to retaliate against them...

The investigation into Trump and his campaign’s contacts with Russia conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller found there was not sufficient evidence to prove that Trump’s 2016 campaign coordinated with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election...
https://news.trust.org/item/20200306230044-c38e7/

Wikipedia: Mark Hosenball is an American investigative correspondent at Reuters. Prior to joining Reuters in September 2010, he worked for Newsweek. He started there in November 1993, after working at Dateline NBC as an investigative producer. He also worked at The Sunday Times, the Evening Standard, Time Out, and contributed articles to The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic. He has also done commentaries for American Public Radio...


16 posted on 03/06/2020 6:53:28 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon

like Hosenball/Reuters, the UK Times newspaper (owned by Murdoch) refers to Trump’s “links” with Russia as if they are a fact. article behind paywall:

Huawei is wrong choice, says former spy Christopher Steele
International - The Times (UK) - 2 hours ago
The former British spy who wrote the intelligence dossier that helped to start the investigation into President Trump’s links with Russia said that
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/huawei-is-wrong-choice-says-former-spy-christopher-steele-rxnrh39w5


17 posted on 03/06/2020 6:55:39 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: bagster
#SteeleKnowsAndIsAfraid

I admit I don’t know everything about it, but why would Steele fear anything, unless we can extradite him? Isn’t the chances of that, between slim and none?

18 posted on 03/06/2020 6:57:53 PM PST by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force Officer in pilot training. Air Force aircraft, go faster than Army tanks.)
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To: JoSixChip

The UK is a signatory to the Hague Service Convention. We can serve the expletive-deleted.


19 posted on 03/06/2020 6:58:23 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: bitt

The Brits must force him to testify under oath.


20 posted on 03/06/2020 6:59:51 PM PST by tennmountainman (The Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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